Some strathspeys have 'Rant' in the title also, e.g. Rothiemurchus'
Rant, Carrick's Rant. What's being referred to here is a more
specifically regional use. I've been wondering if some of the
common-time tunes in Peacock (Cuckold, Cut & Dry, Passing By, Jackey
L) pass the soup test, and might be us
The words 'reel' and 'rant' were quite unstable in meaning in the 18th century
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'The Reel of Harden' is a 9/8, for example. 'Hornpipe', too, can mean a dance
in 4/4, 3/2 or 9/8.
As tunes seem not to have been interchanged with others of similar type for a
given dance until later,
a tune would
The word goes back at least to the 17th century. The composer John
Jenkins (died 1678) included some pieces titled 'Rant' in his viol
consort music. The ones I know are strongly rhythmic but certainly not
tomato soup-ers. AFAIK it is not known why they were called that. He
came from south-e
I am enjoying playing "Sir Charles Rant" - or "Sir Charle's Rant" - in
Peacock, but the title is interesting.
It obviously isn't a rant under the various definitions discussed here
recently, since it's in 6/8.
For those without Peacock who like words to rhythms, it doesn't refer to
tomato sou
